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Larger companies are easier to influence than small ones, no intimidation is necessary.

Protecting user privacy delivers close to 0 shareholder value, being friendly with nations wins you billions of dollars in contracts, regulatory protection, and friendly courts, it's a win-win for big companies and surveillance states to be friendly with each other.

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Larger companies have more to lose if people lost faith in their platform and devices.

Monopolies are easy to influence as they don't even have to care about the optics.

By that logic, maybe unsurprisingly, the FANG's of the world have monopolies.

Who believes that their Apple-Google device doesn't phone home to Five Eyes directly or indirectly. Who would care or be surprised if they announced publicly that they did?

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